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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div>Hi Robert,</div><div><br></div><div>Does FPP satisfy your standard here? Under FPP you can just vote your first</div><div>preference, whether that is a good strategy or not.</div><div><br></div><div>If it does satisfy it, then I feel like your criticism of Approval is a bit</div><div>arbitrary, since we could simply add equal ranking to FPP and in so doing it would</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">be clear that the voter is asked to vote for their first preference(s). The answer<div><div>to your posed question would be no.</div></div></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>If FPP doesn't satisfy your standard either, that's reasonable, although I'm not</div><div>sure Approval strategy is much more burdensome than FPP strategy. (To my mind,</div><div>they are almost the same in practice: Identifying the best frontrunner is the main</div><div>task.)</div></div></div><div><br></div><div>Kevin</div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
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Le samedi 7 novembre 2020 à 20:58:30 UTC−6, robert bristow-johnson <rbj@audioimagination.com> a écrit :
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<div><div dir="ltr">> > i've been trying for a couple years to get the Election Science people to answer that simple question. should a voter approve of their second choice or not? there is no simple answer and the voter is burdened with the task of tactical voting.<br></div><div dir="ltr">> > <br></div><div dir="ltr">> > <br></div><div dir="ltr">> <br></div><div dir="ltr">> Approve your favorite. Disapprove your least-favorite.<br></div><div dir="ltr">> <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Disapprove is no different than not approving. Approve (mark) your favorite. Leave your least favorite unmarked (which is as "disapproved" you can mark them). What do you do with your second choice? Or any other candidate that you hate less than your least-favorite?<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">> Now imagine if the decision were between just those two, and it was being decided with a coin flip.<br></div><div dir="ltr">> <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Are you serious? You are suggesting that a voter literally flip a coin on each candidate that is neither their favorite nor their hated? That's not tactical voting?<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">> For each of the others, would you rather have them win or take the chance on the coin flip between your most-favored candidate and your least-favored candidate?<br></div><div dir="ltr">> <br></div><div dir="ltr">> If you would prefer that candidate to the coin flip, then approve them. If you'd rather take your chances with the coin flip, then disapprove them.<br></div><div dir="ltr">> <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">It's ridiculous to ask or to require voters to do that. What a cognitive burden to place on voters to represent their interests faithfully. If they cannot grok this tactical thinking, then they get to wonder (or fear) if they harmed their favorite or if they helped a candidate they dislike get elected.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-- <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">r b-j <a href="mailto:rbj@audioimagination.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">rbj@audioimagination.com</a> <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">"Imagination is more important than knowledge."<br></div><div dir="ltr">----<br></div><div dir="ltr">Election-Methods mailing list - see <a href="https://electorama.com/em " rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://electorama.com/em </a>for list info<br></div></div>
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